quotations about beauty
Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.
DEAN KOONTZ
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Odd Thomas
Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction.
JAMES REDFIELD
Beliefnet interview, "The Evolution Revolution"
The perfection of her face created a sense of emptiness--like a house with no curtains in the window.
JEFF ABBOTT
Black Jack Point
If you get simple beauty and nought else,
You get about the best thing God invents.
ROBERT BROWNING
Fra Lippo Lippi
Beauty is a symbol of goodness; the admiration we feel for it is a symbol of the reverence inspired by the moral law.
ERMANNO BENCIVENGA
Exercises in Constructive Imagination
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
PLATO
The Symposium
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Myth of Sisyphus
As everyone knows, beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
PHINEAS FLETCHER
Sicelides
While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.
OCTAVE MIRBEAU
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion;
But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought